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</v:background></xml><![endif]--><div class=WordSection1><h1 style='margin-top:0in;line-height:42.75pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Noto Serif",serif;color:#404040;font-weight:normal'>Call for Applications: African Urban Futures Postdoctoral Research Fellowships</span><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Noto Serif",serif;color:#404040;font-weight:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></h1><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span class=post-meta-time><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Noto Sans",sans-serif;color:#555555'><a href="https://www.africancentreforcities.net/call-for-applications-african-urban-futures-postdoctoral-research-fellowships/"><span style='color:#555555'>25 May 2022</span></a></span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Noto Sans",sans-serif;color:#555555'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;outline: none !important;margin:2.4rem;max-width:70rem'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Noto Sans",sans-serif;color:#737373'>ACC and the <a href="https://www.uu.nl/en/research/urban-futures-studio" target="_blank"><span style='color:black'>Urban Futures Studio at Utrecht University</span></a> are undertaking a two-year investigation into processes of futuring that can advance traction for sustainable urban transitions among city leaders and decision-makers. The project rests on the assumption that sustainable urban development requires a break with the present logic of development that predominates in most African countries. This logic is tethered to a modernist vision of advanced post-industrial development that thrives through extractive energy and production systems, reinforced by a consumerist culture. In this imagination chamber, cities are the most sophisticated expressions of modernist progress and productive circulation, manifest in highways, skyscrapers, pristine suburbs and convenience for urban consumers. The environmental, social and economic costs of these ambitions are usually ignored. The project recognizes that there is now considerable evidence and discourse on what sustainable urbanisms might entail in an African context, but this has not been translated into compelling narratives that are resonant with political and policy leaders. The project asks, how might this be changed? How can examples of emergent experiments in sustainable inform new narratives. What kind of institutional and regulatory adaptations and inventions are required to translate experimental intent to the new normal?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;outline: none !important;margin:2.4rem;max-width:70rem'><strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Noto Sans",sans-serif;color:#737373'>Call for applications</span></strong><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Noto Sans",sans-serif;color:#737373'><br></span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Noto Sans",sans-serif;color:#737373'>The ACC invites applications from two suitably qualified applicants to apply for these one-year renewable Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (renewable for up to a total of two years, depending on satisfactory progress). Two positions are available. The successful candidates will be part of the Urban Policy Research Chair at ACC. Beyond the pursuit of their own postdoctoral research, the successful applicant is expected to contribute to the project in one of the following two domains:<o:p></o:p></span></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#737373;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:15.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;outline: none !important'><span style='font-family:"Noto Sans",sans-serif'>Undertake case study research to identify the emergent pockets of urban development innovation in African cities that, if stitched together, may help create an imaginary of alternative futures for African cities.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#737373;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:15.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;outline: none !important'><span style='font-family:"Noto Sans",sans-serif'>Undertake an analysis of the crucial ‘agents of change’ for this new approach to urban Futures, in conjunction with various urban and city networks and key stakeholders that shape the urban governance landscape in Africa.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;outline: none !important;margin:2.4rem;max-width:70rem'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Noto Sans",sans-serif;color:#737373'>As part of Urban Futures Studio and ACC’s intellectual and institutional enterprise, the successful applicant will also be expected to share their work in internal and public forums, be able to engage with colleagues in relation to at least one of our areas of existing work and provide mentorship to ACC’s postgraduate student cohort.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://www.africancentreforcities.net/call-for-applications-african-urban-futures-postdoctoral-research-fellowships/">https://www.africancentreforcities.net/call-for-applications-african-urban-futures-postdoctoral-research-fellowships/</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p 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